skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is pretty rational behavior.

The short sellers are paying (a lot of) interest on their positions and they need those shares. The higher the price goes, the higher the interest rates get.

People long $GME can maintain their positions indefinitely while the short sellers bleed.

This situation could have been prevented if the short sellers acquired enough calls to cover their position in the event of a price spike. One would think that a rich-ass hedge fund manager would do something basic like that.
why? it's not illegal. risky yes, but anyone can buy stocks.
As someone who is currently making a living as a frontend dev I feel you - however for anything more visually advanced and everything less standard (and I understand that it is debatable whether that should be done in the first place) it's often quite difficult to achieve a certain visual effect in all the other gui toolkits I have tried (QT, PyGtk). Often image-blending modes, configurable shadows, animations (especially on those properties) and dynamical effects either are not available at all or not as simple to set up as I am used to. Nevertheless I'd like to be educated which framework would be a good fit for building your typical animation rich dribbble/behance design with glassmorphism shadow magic and whatnot without writing custom shaders. Maybe Flutter?
> Now it might be very difficult to write legislation that precisely encodes the difference between AI and McDonalds.

Perhaps that's because you're trying to legislate emotion instead of an objective difference.

If the rules should apply to one type of organization and not another (your "higher purpose" opinion), then it should be straightforward to unambiguously describe the difference in law: a bright line test. If you cannot, it's likely you're just trying to encode your own subjective personal dictatorial preferences into the law, which is contrary to the values of a society that believes in the rule of law.

It's possible that you just don't like McDs, or do like AI. That's fine, but trying to shape tax law based on your own personal value judgements is contrary to the ideas of equal application of the law to all members of society. This is sort of the "I know it when I see it" approach, and it's, in my view, a somewhat dishonest way to try to legislate personal morality into the public sphere.
Anecdotal I know, but I've compared furniture from Ikea to equivalently cheap stuff from big box stores like target. The equivalent furniture from Target going through the same use cases as the furniture from Ikea - The Target ones are easily several times worse than the Ikea ones, in terms of build quality, safety potentials, etc...
Thanks for sharing. The paper did seem a bit lacking on certain causal details.
Their habit of using illegally harvested wood is a good reason to hate them.
When I was younger I thought it absolutely baffling that some of my educated, reasonable friends and relatives elected for home births, given the obvious increases in risk.

It wasn't until I realized how absolutely terrible the hospital experience is, amplified 10x with birth, rife with shocking biases and sexism, that their behavior began to make perfect sense. Horror story after horror story of human beings being treated little better than cattle. I fear for when I get older and have to deal with the medical system on a more regular basis.
> I've personally never missed the ability to add keyword arguments to a Callable. If you want to anyway, I understand that at least mypy has syntax for this

Neat, I didn't realize this. This is far from desirable, but nice to know it's possible.

> Many syntax niceities will be introduced in upcoming Python releases. From the article:

I mean, typing out "Union" and "Option" or even having to import generic types from the typing module aren't really the syntactic pain points I was referring to. It's more like "Where do I define the TypeVar for a generic method on a class? Do I define it inside of the class or at the top-level module? In either case, if I reference that variable in another method, does it imply that these two types are the same? No doubt there are answers, but Python is the only language in which I have to navigate these kinds of questions. Similarly, having to create a protocol for kwarg callbacks seems really heavy. These are the kinds of things I would like to see improved.

> Dropbox has dedicated engineers maintaining mypy. And of course a few volunteers such as myself. And Guido. :)

Yes, I didn't mean to suggest there was no investment, only that the progress seems really slow (also, I didn't realize Guido was a volunteer? I thought he was employed by DropBox to work on Python). How long have recursive types been in a holding pattern, for example? I don't mean to disrespect you or any of the other maintainers--no doubt you're doing great work.
Yeah, I know... But it's annoying to see money getting transfered from people who are good at valuation to people who're clueless.
People can downvote this, but I've literally read right-of-center people making this argument.
IME the Keyboardio Model 01 (sold out but used ones come up for sale, and they're working on a new model) addresses this issue well. Maybe worth looking into.
Great chart! Yes, looks like the premium was down these days (last few weeks it was insane)
Can Elon take it off their hands?
I recently tried to sign up for Twitter API and the process is nothing like what it used to be. You have to give them a lot of information to even qualify, such as what you're going to use it for. It used to be that those were just some fields you need to fill out and you could sign up immediately. But nowadays the application process requires a direct approval from their team, which means they're monitoring every API account like Apple does with their app store. And if you like about your usage you are probably liable
I have friends (now M.Sc.s in CS) who did support people writing psychology stuff (PhD & Masters thesis mostly, as well as papers) at my alma mater. The key take away was: Many of the students at that dep were either bad in statistics, or outright abused them to "prove" the desired effect via manipulation of the data or intentionally using the wrong method. Both faculty and students would not listen to experts telling them that their statistical method was weak. The most amusing/saddening point was when one of them was fired because he said he couldn't solve the Halting Problem for them (& I mean that literally, it was a crucial part of an experiment).

Now a family member works as a data scientist, supporting students with statistical analysis (for thesis/papers). Same thing there, a lot of students seek her help because they're bad with statistics (well, at least they don't fabricate data...), some want their thesis written by her (she drops that kind of job) and some expect her to hammer the data until it fits their hypothesis (which seems to be the most annoying/exhausting, because she has to convince them their method is wrong and the result pointless).

Overall take away: I'm sorry, but for some fields simply have to classify a PhD as worthless unless I've read the work myself :(
The world is fucked up in numerous ways. Modern means of communications including social media suddenly make all those depressing facts visible. I think we are confusing symptoms with the cause here.
Elon drove the price from ~150 to ~240 back down to ~210 in after-hours trading yesterday.
> Reddit crashing the markets

Source on that? Even at this prices GME is ~$20b market cap in an exchange that represents ~$25t in market cap. I don't know that it really poses a systemic risk to anyone who didn't take out insanely risky short positions on the company in the first place
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"When you know it isn't true".

Really?

Teenagers are addicted to social media and adults get addicted to news media.

Both are based on fear mongering and the fear of missing out. Do you not see that underneath the problem is the same?
I totally agree. Their perspective and thoughts also matter. This kinda goes along with the whole "Do they allow their entire team in interviews".
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$15 min wage will cost someone their livelihood. That's ok
Most of my requests are failing with

Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://api.ventspace.life/api/v1/ventpost. (Reason: CORS header ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ missing).
Parking spaces yes, but there are far more complicated issues. Look at the size of this thing. Just imagine the maintenance needed to keep it safe. Who knows what environmental evils are in there (asbestos, oils, paints). Either find the millions per year to keep it as a museum piece, or demolish it safely now. Only then does the question becomes what will that space be used for. If you have no other use, ya, it can be a parking lot. It is not being demolished to create the parking lot. It is being demolished because it needs to be demolished. To what use the then-vacant land shall be put is a different story.
IKEA also has a will to abuse them to a degree that their peers don’t, and we should judge them as less ethical for it.
I'm surprised its only one in three. In the 80s I would have guessed that at least half of 14 year old girls ( I was one ) were unhappy with their appearance.
Back in the days, Melvin Capital was shorting $TSLA.
Musk doesnt like shortsellers.
You literally just said it, it causes anxiety on a day to day basis. Whether you're handling that anxiety well or not, it's not healthy to be managing anxiety on a daily basis.
Because the short sellers are not operating in good faith. See this article [1] for more details.

[1] https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b1pgz6k9kjs50v...
You're almost certainly going to find this paired with something like an RTX 3060 maxQ in a bunch of laptops (similar to last year's Zephyrus G14) which would be a much better option for SteamVR or any gaming.

VR at 20 fps is going to be nauseating to say the least. Reprojection helps, but not that much. For example Oculus won't let your game into the store at all unless the minimum spec system can sustain 45 FPS, and the recommended must be 90 FPS.
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This is the first time a stock rally makes perfect sense to me. Power to the people.
> people who are good at valuation

I wouldn't call people who short 140% of available shares good at anything
> You can see it based on how slow scientific development has gotten

I feel that the cause and effect are reverse; while the low hanging fruit was available and getting discovered it was a lot harder to get away with fraudulent results. But now that we're facing diminishing returns and more fish in the pond due to years of overtraining fraud is easier to sell.
> Moreover, the talk page always has anything that might be controversial about the article that you might be interested in.

This, plus access to the per-article revision history, ensures a much higher degree of transparency than any other comparable work.
/r/OutOfTheLoop, summary anyone?
I have alot of IKEA stuff, the quality complaints are mostly inaccurate IMO. If you buy mid-priced furniture from a big box furniture store, it costs more and very marginally much better. It does move better assembled though.

High quality furniture requires skilled labor and is very expensive.

I would say that having built an Ikea kitchen and dealing with a few relatively minor issues, their customer support sucks. The employees are great, but the friction in getting to them is awful. Maybe the NY/NJ/CT Ikeas are worse with this.
I agree that kids shouldn’t use the internet unsupervised, but what is the alternative? We were all 15 once. It is 100% impossible to stop kids from using the internet if they want to. So what’s the alternative?
I’ve been saying that the internet was designed by engineers, for engineers. I don’t mean this literally, but in the sense that methodical, reasonable adults built out these systems without thinking about how the average person, let alone teenager, would be using it.

And at this point even a lot of engineers I know fall into the traps of addiction and echo chambers quite readily. I find of Tristan Harris’s “pointing supercharged AI at our brains” line to be accurate.
Oh Elon, you missed an obvious 420 there, mate.
Not illegal at all, but someone will pay at the end. There was something similar going on in the past with the Hunt brothers (look it up on Wikipedia). Everybody who followed them got burnt severely because the big guys suddenly had the rules changed.
Topology 101 is not about holes. It is about open sets and continuous functions.
But there were glaring deficiencies in the stats. Anyone reviewing the papers should have caught them.
The same phenomenon has Blockbuster worth 5 cents a share, or about what GameStop offers for trade-ins.
And here I've been told that the market price is the price, because that's the price, and don't get emotional about the market.

I guess that only applies when the 'right' people are involved?
Thank you IKEA
I didn't say conservative - I said dissenting. Although I imagine many conservatives have learned to self-censor so they can remain part of the conversation there.

How about asserting that men and women are different biologically? Is that a conspiracy theory?

Or is it simply a dissenting viewpoint from the group-think of Twitter that was silenced...

https://thefederalist.com/2018/11/25/twitter-permanently-ban...
So by that definition I live in a "socialist country" (Germany) because it has a social safety net? And there I thought I had successfully escaped socialism in 1990 when the wall came down. Crap ;)

(the GDR didn't call itself a "communist country", because the party realized that the poor condition of the economy doesn't quite fit the utopian ideals of "communism", so they invented the term "real socialism" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_socialism) as one of multiple steps towards a glorious communist future, which would be realized "really soon now, just work a bit harder and one day we'll be rewarded with communism"
- or something like that at least, of course nobody believed this bullshit, not even the diehard communists themselves).
Rational from the POV of investors looking to extract some short-term returns. Completely irrational in that nobody seems to give a shit about Gamestop and they're actual performance as a business.
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There's definitely some bad things I saw too soon on the internet but if I'd not had access at a young age to it and my own computer I absolutely would not be where I am currently. There are many bad influences, but in my case I'd take all of them for the things I learned in my journey. I'd prefer of course to find ways to minimize them but not by way of abstinence
I'll admit up front I've not read the Culture novels and am less likely to, now I read this article. But I've seen a lot of Star Trek.

It sounds like Star Trek has a lot of similarities with the Culture novels. Both depict an imagined communist utopia in which everyone is flawless, that butts up against or sometimes interferes with other flawed societies.

In Star Trek (as written by Roddenberry) the Federation is a society that doesn't use money, there is no internal strife, virtually everyone is moral and good with Picard being the apex human, the Federation is vaguely democratic but the show is basically uninterested in that aspect of things, and they all exist in a sort of post-scarcity world. The communist nature of Star Trek TNG/Voyager is quite obscure until you see it, and then you can't unsee it anymore. This is no surprise because Roddenberry's views changed in the decades between TOS and TNG until by the 1980s he was an avowed Maoist.

I've actually written an essay about the communist nature of Federation society, along with some of the inevitable contradictions and problems this caused for the writing team:

https://blog.plan99.net/i-want-to-see-a-libertarian-star-tre...

Obviously it's not a very serious essay but at the end I do wonder why there are so few optimistic depictions of the future. Even though the arc of human history has been solidly upwards, very little fiction is willing to extrapolate that forwards, and when it does happen the authors are always communists so we get weird, implausible takes on human nature that make humans feel more alien than the aliens. I guess it's because Marxism requires at its core an explicitly utopian prediction of the future to offset the rather less utopian consequences of bloody revolution. Whereas capitalism - being not so much an ideology as a thing that springs up naturally even when governments are trying to suppress it - doesn't have any kind of view on what the future will look like.
Short sellers basically bet against troubled stocks. /r/WallStreetBets called them on it by pumping some of those stocks up, costing short sellers billions.
I think it was Buffet who said that the stock market is a voting system.
I doubt he was sitting on the sidelines even before posting tbh.
>did GameStop ever pivot from

This stock now has zero to do with the GameStop business.

It is traders fighting other traders causing a wild fluctuation in the stock. GME is just the arena for the fight.
Good summary here: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/27/business/dealbook/reddit-...
If only it truly were a mere caricature then the world would be a much better place.
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You don't need to anticipate how long those things will take, you bill after the fact. Yeah if you don't keep good records of your schedule and just try to guess what you were doing at 2:39 last tuesday it might be stressful, but that's a problem with the record keeping, not the billing.
If you really want to impress your customers, use SQLite to aggregate LZ4-compressed entities. In many AAA games, there can be hundreds of thousands of assets to load & keep track of. If you have to load an entire scene from disk, you could write a simple SQL query to select all assets assigned to the scene (i.e. a SceneAssets mapping table) and then stream them all into memory from the unified database file handle.
> HTML/CSS is an inevitable part of the ecosystem because the web is an important target.

You did confuse cause with effect.

In the first place Web accepted HTML/CSS/JS for the good reason - as a classic implementation of "Separation of Concerns" principle.

See:

1. HTML defines semantic structure of UI - DOM tree.

2. JS, as language-behind-the-UI, handles users events and updates DOM tree and its state.

3. CSS defines how that DOM tree is presented to the user in its current state.

These three tasks are so distinct that require their own languages that are optimal for the task.

That split has a lot of sense. For example, HTML and abstract DOM tree alone enables accessible access (a.k.a. Section 508). And so on.

There were, are and will be all-in-one approaches to UI, like Flutter or WPF for example. They will never be universal UI solutions for reasons outlined above, especially on desktop UI.
Twitter is officially in the shitter.
I've gotten lots of mileage out of "How do big decisions get made at this company?" And you want to turn it into a conversation - probe their answers, ask for examples, etc.

You learn about how each interviewer experiences the decision-making process. How are the decisions communicated? Who decides? Do initiatives steamroll people and teams? Are people able to filter up suggestions or start their own initiatives? Can decisions get made team-by-team, or do they have to be made for the whole company? Do they change their mind when they get new evidence? Do people change their mind too much? Do they have trouble saying "no"? If they want to tell you "no," do they actually say it? Are they too afraid to make decisions that can change the culture, and just kinda drift?

As an IC engineer, this is what I have the least control over (and can find the most frustrating). So I want to hear exactly how broad change happens. It helps me imagine how it'll feel to spend four years in the environment.

This is the kind of question that you need to ask everyone. You won't get a good answer from one person. You want to ask a few people and see if their stories line up.
Great list thanks, I love LGR.

If you don't mind my asking - do you know any channels or places that do full longplays of games on original hardware with no emulation? I try my best to find walkthroughs on games on youtube but they very rarely specify that it is using the original hardware. And Xbox og/360 longplays are the easiest because they haven't been emulated properly so almost all videos are on the hardware afaik.

Looking for 1997-2006 PC gaming and PS1/PS2.
I guess I just like videos that aren't emulated and people like LGR only provide clips:P
I could see that. I guess a better way to say it is just to pay attention to their overall body language.
...but Ikea is highly repairable.
Right now, money isn't getting transferred from people who are good at valuation to people who're clueless. I'd say it's quite the opposite.
This is really off topic, but I just wanted to highlight how important the simpsons are to communication. Like, "old man yells at cloud" causes me to almost immediately understand your point (at least I feel I understand your point). The rest of your comment is almost unnecessary (although it is appreciated because it helps confirm that I am getting you).

Personally, the experience is a bit incredible.
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Hand crafted furniture often has more value because the types of jointery used are more durable over time. A dovetail joined drawer will last much longer than one put together via plastic screws, but it’s also requires much more expensive materials and labor.

Oh, and hardwood furniture is often lighter ironically. MDF is really heavy.
Some anecdotes:

Called my daughter's pediatrician's office, left a message with one of her nurses with my question and my contact info so the doc could call back when she had time. She did, but she called my wife. (Has happened more than once. Has never happened "the other way.")

I work much closer to our day care than my wife and have a more flexible schedule, so if one of our kids gets sick and needs to be picked up I have done the pick up 100% of the time. Yet 100% of the time they call my wife, who then calls me. Also, 100% of the time they are a bit surprised when I show up to pick up the kid.

This hasn't caused us any harm, but I believe the phenomena is "real" and I could see scenarios where it does cause harm. It's also true that some instances have mundane causes as others have pointed out here.
I think about the times I've lashed out, screamed and yelled at someone and you know what? It felt pretty good. At first. Then I felt worse. WAY worse because I knew I had hurt the person I had yelled at.

So I think you're right that while it is a release, it's an anti-productive one.

One analogy I saw once likened it to having a balloon. You forgot to take out the trash this morning--the balloon got blown up a little. You got stuck in traffic--the balloon got blown up a little more. All those little things happening throughout the day and blowing up that balloon a little bit more each time and pretty soon that balloon is going to violently pop. We can choose things in our life that release that balloon periodically however, and in doing so it never gets so full that it pops.

To me, there is no difference between lashing out online or in person and is more akin to that balloon popping (or, at the very least, adding air to it) than it is releasing air from it.
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Haha I remember that argument. The thought was anonymity made people horrible to each other online. Turns out people are horrible to each other online regardless.